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This essay: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-hav... is so bad, so dogmatic, and so obnoxious, verging on something that feels to me like intellectual dishon…

Sorry, I don't follow. Did I make a dumb mistake and fail to notice? Am I a total hypocrite?

> > A website shouldn't be pinning CPU or GPU. > That's exactly what I was saying. Rendering a few widgets shouldn't pin your CPU or GPU because it's so little work. Your comment d…

This is astonishing. How could a person go to the lengths of writing an entire book without ever looking up this sort of thing?

My mother?

There has never been a vaccine requirement for voting. It has never been voted on. It has never gone to committee. It has never been proposed. If you nevertheless are certain that …

> The choice between a galloping right wing and a stagnant center-right is no choice at all. American elections are a facade for decisions already made on top. This critique had it…

This is nonsense. HN is very lightly, and fairly, moderated.

No, digital subscriber line, obviously

Interesting idea. How does it, or how should it, perform in huge monorepos, where git performance suffers? I spend most of my time in a repo that contains hundreds of thousands of …

Agreed. Another comment in the thread describes the author's horrible, abuse-filled upbringing as the child of young parents who both weren't prepared for children and, in at least…

Yeah, I don't agree with the guy you're answering. I know plenty of great people who just don't want kids and don't find time with them to be rewarding or gratifying, and there's n…

Alng the same lines: movies and tv shows have taught me that there are no door knobs in the future.

My love for my daughter and my wife enrich my life and contribute more to my happiness than anything else, by far. As you wrote, the majority of the very, very hard work has fallen…

> Whether anything is conscious is about as important and amorphous as whether God exists Whether something is conscious is important for many reasons, not least the ethical implic…

If an LLM contributed to a piece of writing, the author should say so, very clearly, at the start of the piece, not at the end.

I am stunned by the beauty of these. The Tufte template is particularly unexpected and lovely

I wouldn't call this nitpicking. This is how people who are careful with money think. I learned embarrassingly late to stop justifying purchases by making predictions about future …

Hi, Tomhow, would you mind reviewing my exchange with the user voxl?

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The comment isn't a diatribe, and your experience as a teacher and advisor does not make your argument correct, let alone make your request any less a nonsequitur. If I disagree wi…

> The reality is that a human will learn, given any materials including LLMs, but only if they truly desire to learn. We've had MOOCs, gigantic libraries, all full of free informat…

> The LLM has terrible judgment but an encyclopedic knowledge Bingo. Claude can bang out nearly correct code when I give it an idea, but it doesn't have the idea and repeatedly mis…

Use expensive models at high effort